Microsoft's adCenter blog recently published a blog post about MSN's keyword normalization & how this can cause duplicate keywords in your adCenter account. The way they put it, you can't upload keywords they normalize as the same keywords into an adCenter account. However, I recently took over an adCenter account, and I've found this to most definitely not be the … [Read more...] about MSN adCenter Keyword Normalization & The Frustration Therefrom
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Ad Testing Made Easy: Series Wrap Up
Thanks for joining us on another week-long series here on PPC Hero! Hopefully after this week you are ready to start thinking about implementing ad testing in your own accounts, or maybe you’ve already decided to jump in. (Hey, we can hope, right?) Here’s a recap of all the posts we covered this week for quick reference if you need it: Ad Testing Best Practices … [Read more...] about Ad Testing Made Easy: Series Wrap Up
Ad Testing Made Easy: Getting Over Challenges for Necessity
The final installment to this month’s PPC Hero series on Ad Testing Made Easy will focus on covering why ad testing can be difficult and why it is so important to keep at the top of the priority list in lieu of those challenges. Challenges Getting Started It’s probably obvious based on the previous three installments in the series that one of the major challenges in ad … [Read more...] about Ad Testing Made Easy: Getting Over Challenges for Necessity
The Importance of Negative Keywords
I’m going to apologize right off the bat for this tired cliché, but not all keywords are created equal. There are, in fact, tons of keywords you don’t want anywhere near your campaigns, driving ‘bad’ traffic to your website. In order to raise your overall quality score and prevent this ‘bad’ traffic, you’re going to add some negative keywords at some point. “How can traffic … [Read more...] about The Importance of Negative Keywords
Ad Testing Made Easy: Running An Ad Test
In the third installment of our series, Ad Testing Made Easy, I’ll be talking about implementing your ad test. After reading Felicia’s post yesterday, I’m sure it’s safe to assume you accepted her mission and are ready to dig in and implement some ad testing. So, where do you start? Where do you end? This is your field guide to putting effective PPC ad testing into … [Read more...] about Ad Testing Made Easy: Running An Ad Test
Ad Testing Made Easy: The Set Up
Welcome to the second part of our series on Ad Testing Made Easy. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to better your account by implementing proper ad testing. Today we will discuss how to set up proper ad testing in both Bing and Google. Ethan Hunt didn’t become a super spy over night, did he? No, he did not. So keep in mind that it takes some time and effort to … [Read more...] about Ad Testing Made Easy: The Set Up
Facebook Ad Autopsy
When most people think of testing results for Facebook Ads, they think in terms of boosting click-throughs -- getting higher response rate by using the right picture and saying the right things. But that's an incomplete picture. Don't get me wrong: boosting CTR IS a good thing, but your goal should be to optimize the total process, at each stage of the client acquisition … [Read more...] about Facebook Ad Autopsy
Ad Testing Made Easy: Best Practices
This is the first installment of our Ad Testing Made Easy series for this month. For the purpose of today’s post, we will discuss our list of ad testing best practices that can be applied to your own accounts. Ad testing can be a tricky process to master. It requires both time and money, both of which are oftentimes difficult to come by as busy paid search managers. … [Read more...] about Ad Testing Made Easy: Best Practices
Matt Lawson to Speak at Hero Conf
We are proud to have Matt Lawson, Vice President of Marketing at Marin Software, as a recently confirmed Hero Conf 2012 speaker. Register for Hero Conf by the 16th of January, and we will send you a free Display Network white paper, “Navigating the Google Display Network: How to Succeed and Gain Conversions” (limited to the first 25). Hero Conf is a paid search conference on … [Read more...] about Matt Lawson to Speak at Hero Conf
Ad Test and You Shall Receive!
It’s a new year PPC Hero readers, and that means it’s time to stop putting off all the things you promised you’d do in 2011 and really start doing them! First on your list? Ad testing for increased account performance. At least that’s where we’re starting, with the first PPC management series of 2012: How to Ad Test Using Best Practices. You’re probably saying to yourself, … [Read more...] about Ad Test and You Shall Receive!
Our Greatest Hits for December 2011
The page views have spoken! Below we have gathered PPC Hero’s most visited, and hopefully most valuable articles from December. Whether you’re a new or long-time subscriber, you may have missed these insightful and helpful PPC management tips. Enjoy! “You can’t fear mistakes when you manage a PPC account.” Good advice from our seasoned PPC veteran, Jeff, as he lands the … [Read more...] about Our Greatest Hits for December 2011
5 New Year Account Analyzation Tips
It's a new year, and that means you've got another year's worth of data in your PPC account. Don't let this valuable data just sit there, it's time for your annual new year analyzations! Account Executive, Sarah Storm (winner of coolest name in the office), tells you 5 tips for your new year account analyzations! And, for this week's WYKW, I've included the transcripts below … [Read more...] about 5 New Year Account Analyzation Tips
